Courts - Gloucester

March 07, 1991

GLOUCESTER

* A 21-year-old man was sentenced to prison Tuesday and ordered to pay $16,500 in restitution for setting fire to two barns.

Robert A. Tillage Jr. of Route 3, Hayes, in a plea agreement on two arson charges, was sentenced to 10 years in prison, with six years suspended, for burning a barn owned by F.W. Stratton of Ordinary. Tillage also agreed to pay Stratton $15,000.

Tillage was given a three-year suspended sentence and ordered to pay $1,500 to Benjamin Borden of Gloucester Point for burning Borden's barn.

* Patrick A. Bess, 20, of Route 6, Gloucester, was placed on probation for five years for possession of cocaine.

* Raymond Deal Jr., 33, of Route 1, Saluda, was ordered to serve 12 months in jail for violating terms of his probation. He was on probation after being convicted of burglary, maiming and attempted sexual battery.

* Byron A. Ward, 27, of Route 660, Cardinal, was sentenced to 15 years in prison, with 12 years suspended, for distributing cocaine. He was also ordered to repay the Sheriff's Department the $280 investigators used to buy drugs from him.

* Thomas H. Mise Jr., 29, of Route 2, Gloucester, was ordered to serve 30 days in jail for violating his probation on a grand larceny conviction.

* Teresa L. Keeton, 24, was placed into the Community Diversion Incentive program to perform supervised community services in place of serving a prison sentence of two years and two months for distributing cocaine.

* Samuel H. Wilson Jr., 35, of Woods Cross Roads was sentenced to 15 years in prison, with 12 years suspended, for distributing cocaine. He was ordered to repay $100 used by investigators to buy the drugs.

* A charge of possessing cocaine against Teresa C. Insley, age and address unavailable, was dismissed after she successfully completed a year of probation.

* Barbara J. Williams, 44, and Donald B. Hatton Jr., 35, both of Chesapeake, were given five-year suspended prison sentences on convictions of distributing marijuana. The two were also ordered to repay $270 that had been used to purchase drugs from them.